lbcd/blockchain/accept.go

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// Copyright (c) 2013-2017 The btcsuite developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package blockchain
import (
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcutil"
)
// maybeAcceptBlock potentially accepts a block into the block chain and, if
// accepted, returns whether or not it is on the main chain. It performs
// several validation checks which depend on its position within the block chain
// before adding it. The block is expected to have already gone through
// ProcessBlock before calling this function with it.
//
// The flags modify the behavior of this function as follows:
// - BFDryRun: The block index will not be updated and no accept notification
// will be sent since the block is not being accepted.
//
// The flags are also passed to checkBlockContext and connectBestChain. See
// their documentation for how the flags modify their behavior.
//
// This function MUST be called with the chain state lock held (for writes).
func (b *BlockChain) maybeAcceptBlock(block *btcutil.Block, flags BehaviorFlags) (bool, error) {
dryRun := flags&BFDryRun == BFDryRun
// The height of this block is one more than the referenced previous
// block.
blockHeight := int32(0)
prevNode := b.index.LookupNode(&block.MsgBlock().Header.PrevBlock)
if prevNode != nil {
blockHeight = prevNode.height + 1
}
block.SetHeight(blockHeight)
// The block must pass all of the validation rules which depend on the
// position of the block within the block chain.
err := b.checkBlockContext(block, prevNode, flags)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
// Insert the block into the database if it's not already there. Even
// though it is possible the block will ultimately fail to connect, it
// has already passed all proof-of-work and validity tests which means
// it would be prohibitively expensive for an attacker to fill up the
// disk with a bunch of blocks that fail to connect. This is necessary
// since it allows block download to be decoupled from the much more
// expensive connection logic. It also has some other nice properties
// such as making blocks that never become part of the main chain or
// blocks that fail to connect available for further analysis.
err = b.db.Update(func(dbTx database.Tx) error {
return dbMaybeStoreBlock(dbTx, block)
})
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
// Create a new block node for the block and add it to the in-memory
// block chain (could be either a side chain or the main chain).
blockHeader := &block.MsgBlock().Header
newNode := newBlockNode(blockHeader, blockHeight)
if prevNode != nil {
newNode.parent = prevNode
newNode.height = blockHeight
newNode.workSum.Add(prevNode.workSum, newNode.workSum)
}
b.index.AddNode(newNode)
// Undo changes to the block index when running in dry run mode.
if dryRun {
defer func() {
b.index.RemoveNode(newNode)
}()
}
// Connect the passed block to the chain while respecting proper chain
// selection according to the chain with the most proof of work. This
// also handles validation of the transaction scripts.
isMainChain, err := b.connectBestChain(newNode, block, flags)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
// Notify the caller that the new block was accepted into the block
// chain. The caller would typically want to react by relaying the
// inventory to other peers.
if !dryRun {
b.chainLock.Unlock()
b.sendNotification(NTBlockAccepted, block)
b.chainLock.Lock()
}
return isMainChain, nil
}